Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84718-6 - Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Civil Courage Barbara A. Misztal Index More information Index Aarvik, E. 143, 147, 204 allegiances to group 86 Aaseng, N. 116, 121 Alonso, H. H. 130, 131 Aberdeen, University of 215 Emily Greene Balch and 193, 194, 196, Abrams, I. 198, 207 champions and 182, 184, 185, 188, 192, Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi 195, 197, 199, 201 Europe (Oliner and Oliner) 75 dissidents and 156, 161, 175 Amabile, T. M. 49 heroes and 130, 137, 138, 143, 144 ambiguity 15, 63 Nobel Prize and 110, 111, 113–14, 115, American Academy of Arts and Letters 141 121 American Chemical Society 220 pioneers and 212, 215, 217, 220 American culture 71, 80, 95 on recurrent patterns 101 American Economic Association 191 absence of intellectuals 14–15 American Journal of Sociology 130 academic-expert 29 American Sociological Society 129 Academy of Sciences (Russia) 165, 169 American Union Against Militarism 194 ‘Account rendered’ (Ossietzky) 159 Amnesty International 118, 119, 175 achievement 32 Amundsen, Roald 135 Act of Creation (Koestler) 46 ancient Greeks 1, 39, 65–7, 68–70, 73, action theory 42, 53–4, 54–5 125 Addams, Jane 122, 127–33, 235 Anderson, Hans Christian 154 courage and 133 andreia (military manliness) 68 creativity and 132–3 Andropov, Yury 168 Emily Greene Balch and 193, 194, 207 Angell, Norman 122, 182–91, 206 hostility to 130 cooperation and 184 Hull House and 127, 128–9, 132, 133 Great Illusion and 182, 184–5 migrants and 128 League of Nations and 187, 188 networks and 133 Norman Angellism 184 social reform and 128–9 anomie 79 universities and 129 anthropological studies 46–7 wholeness of life/work 147 ‘anti-capitalist bias’ 97 women’s rights and 130 anti-democratic gestures 98 world peace and 130–1 anti-Semitism 160 adhocism 58 Antoine, C. 173, 175, 176 Adler, Alfred 145 anxiety 59–60 Adorno, T. 90 apartheid 117 Afghanistan 169 Approaches to the Great Settlement (Balch) Africa 120, 144, 195 194 Norman E. Borlaug in 230–1 Aquinas, Thomas 74 African Growth and Opportunity Act 231 Arctic expedition (Nansen) 134, 135 African National Congress 117, 120 Arendt, H. 59–60, 64, 239 African-Americans 95 authority sources and 33, 35, 39 Albert, R. S. 40, 41, 42 courage and 65, 68, 70, 177 262 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84718-6 - Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Civil Courage Barbara A. Misztal Index More information Index 263 Argentina 122, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177 Bain, A. J. 135 Arieti, S. 38 Bakhtin, M. 47 Aristotle 65, 66, 69, 77, 78, 148 Balch, Emily Greene 122, 161, 191–8, 206 Armenians 138, 140 cooperation and 196–7 Armistice Day 196 Haiti and 195, 198 Aron, R. 17, 96, 98, 241 League of Nations and 193, 195, 196 artists 122 Wellesley College and 191, 192–3, 194, see also Pe´rez Esquivel, Adolfo 196, 197 Asia 119, 120, 143 Ball State University 190 Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Balton, R. K. 65 Nations (Myrdal) 203 Baudrillard, J. 14 Asmis, E. 39 Bauman, Z. 3, 7, 89, 94, 95, 99 Atlantic Charter 216 authority and 13–14, 26, 27, 28, 32 Atomic Energy Commission (US) 222 Begin the World Anew (Bailyn) 33 atomic weapons see nuclear testing Beidernikl, G. 112 Aung San Suu Kyi 119 Benda, J. 2, 16–17, 88, 96, 181, 239–40 Auschwitz 141 Ben-David, J. 235 authority Bergen Museum 134–5 authoritarian regimes 98, 125 Berger, S. 182, 190 authorisation structures 104 Bergson, H. 44 defining public intellectual 1, 13–21, 123 Berlin, I. 33–4, 41, 62, 103, 179, 239 Benda on 16–17 Berlin Wall 119, 153 Collini on 20–1 Berliner Volks-Zeitung 157 contradictions 14 Berman, M. 142, 145, 146 death of intellectual 14–15 Bernhard, C. G. 113 Foucault on 18–19 Bernik, I. 100 free-floating 17–18 Bethke Elshtain, J. 36, 68 Gramsci on 18 heroes and 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 148 Mannheim on 17–18 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche) 23 rootlessness 17–18 Bickford, S. 177 sociological 19 Biddulph, H. 155 traditional 16 biography and creativity 49 overview 7 Bisceglia, L. 182, 183, 186, 187–8, 189, 190 role of public intellectuals 21–8 Bismarck 72 beyond professional duties 26–7 ‘bisociation’ 46 celebrity and 26 Bitburg cemetery 143 creativity and 36–7 Black, Joseph 41 media and 24–5 Black Reichswehr 158 professionalism and 23 Bloom, A. 22 specialisation and 21–2, 25, 34 boat people 144 universities and 22–3 Boden, M. A. 39, 44 sources of 28–37 Boer War 183 celebrity 30–1 Bohm, D. 45, 56 classical model 28–9 Bok, S. 200, 201, 202–3 courage 34–7 Bolshevik Revolution 161 creative imagination 32, 33 Bonner, Elena 167, 168 creativity 31–3, 36–7 Borges, Jorge Luis 177 critique 28, 34 Borlaug, Norman E. 122, 225–32 democracy 33–4 addressing problems 232–6 expert-intellectual 29–30 in Africa 230–1 judgements and 21–34 criticism of 230 autonomous intellectual field 100, 103 in India 225, 227–8 in Mexico 225, 226–8 Bacon, A. 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176 in Pakistan 225, 227–8 Bailey, G. 165, 166, 168, 169, 170 training and 229–30 Bailyn, B. 33, 62 Bosnia 144 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84718-6 - Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Civil Courage Barbara A. Misztal Index More information Index264 Boston Children’s Aid Society 192 Centre for the Study of Democratic Boston University 141, 142 Institutions 223 Boswell, J. 70 Chadwick Lecture 213 Bourdieu, P. 3, 55, 56, 235 ‘challengers’ 60 authority and 13, 15, 20, 25, 26–7, 32, Chamberlain, Neville 189 35 champions 106, 181–208 engagement and 89, 90, 97, 98, 100–1, public opinion and reform 181–2 103 reason and communication 206–8 Boyd Orr, John 122, 211–18 see also Angell, Norman; Balch, Emily addressing problems 232–6 Greene; Myrdal, Alva criticism of 214 chance 61–2 Food and Agriculture Organisation charisma 58–9 (FAO) and 212, 217 Charles V, Emperor 85 Quebec conference 216–17 Chicago 127, 128, 133 Rowett Institute and 212–13, 216 Chicago, University of 129, 149, 189, 192 Boynton, R. S. 94 China 230 Bozoki, A. 100 Chomsky, N. 15, 24 Brecht, Bertolt 153 Christiania (Oslo), University of 134, 135, Brezhnev, L. 166 136 Britain 189 Christianity 40, 125, 172, 173 see also United Kingdom (UK) Churchill, Winston 68, 215 British Science Association 214 Cicero 72 Brown, V. B. 128, 129, 149 City College of New York 142 Brym, R. J. 18, 98 civic activism 34, 64, 132 Bryn Mawr, college 191 civil courage see under courage Buchenwald 141 civil rights 117, 171 Buenos Aires 171–2, 175 civil society 72, 85, 104 Burke, Edmund 15 class 19 Burns, T. R. 40–1, 44 ‘cleft habitus’ 101 Bussey, G. 191 ‘clercs, les’ 181 Clinton, Hillary 145 Calder, R. 213, 214–16, 217, 218, 234 Clinton, President Bill 144, 145 California, University of 223 Closing of the American Mind (Bloom) 22 California Institute of Technology Cobden, Richard 183, 184 (Caltech) 219, 223 Cold War 119 California State Investigation Committee Cole, J. R. 91 on Education 221 Cole, S. 91 Calvinism 63 collaboration 61, 91, 94 Cambodians 142, 144 Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics Camic, G. 20 and Creative Work (Farrell) 93 Campbell, J. 125 ‘collective consciousness’ 27 Canada 120 Collini, S. 3, 4, 182, 206, 223 Canguilhem, G. 61 authority and 21–2, 23, 32, 35 capitalism 44 definitions 13, 15, 17, 20–1 care and inclusiveness 75 engagement and 90, 94, 101, 104 careers 101–6 Collins, H. M. 91 Carey, J. 15 Collins, R. 91, 92–3, 235 Cargas, H. J. 145 Comite´ Mondial Contre la Guerre et le Carlyle, Thomas 126 Fascisme (World Committee against Carnegie Endowment for International War and Fascism) 189 Peace 184, 186 commerce 39, 48 Carter, President Jimmy 142, 231, 232 Commission on Women’s Work 201 Castoriadis, C. 52, 64 commitment 90 celebrity 15, 20, 26, 28, 30–1, 118, 126 Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in censorship 103 the Everyday Cultures of the Young Central Europe 195 (Willis) 47 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84718-6 - Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Civil Courage Barbara A. Misztal Index More information Index 265 communication, reason and 206–8 creativity 4, 36–7, 122 communism 99, 161, 162, 221 action, nature of 52–4 communitarian ethics 133 judgement 53–4 competence and confidence 76–7 sociological approaches 52 Comte-Sponville, A. 66, 67, 69, 72 definitions 38–49 concentration camps 141, 156, 160, 161 anthropological studies 46–7 ‘conductorless orchestration’ 56 cultural studies 47 conflict 85, 93 dictionary 38–9 Congressional Gold Medal 143 eighteenth-century 40–1 Contact with America (Myrdal and Myrdal) Greek 39 201 management studies 48 ‘convention’ 85 nineteenth-century 42, 43–4 cooperation 131–2, 184, 196–7, 212 normal science 44–5 Cooperative Wheat Research and Renaissance 40 Production Program 227 Romantic 41 Coser, L. 13, 16, 28, 34, 96, 225, 241 sociology of science 45–6 Coughlin, W. P. 205 twentieth-century 42, 44 courage 4–5, 31, 34–7, 65–87, 122, 177 democratisation of 48 an impossible subject 67 earliest traditions 39 ‘courageous highwaymen’ 80 forms of 54–64 engagements and see under engagements ‘charismatic inspiration’ 58–9 group allegiance and nonconformity ‘civic creativity’ 64 78–82, 133 collaborative exploration 61 criminal deviance and 79–80 ‘creative insight’ 62 Marcuse on 82 formal 56 Merton on 79–80 habitual 55–6 religion and 78 improvisation 60 Riesman on 81–2 informal 56 Whyte on 82 ‘invisible elbow’ principle 58 of Jane Addams 133 rationalisation 62–3 nature and status 65–73 situation 54–7 ancient Greeks and 65–7, 68–70